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Caerphilly cheese is a hard cheese that originates in the area around the town of Caerphilly in Wales. It was not originally made in the town, but was sold at market there, hence taking the town's name. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 132 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Caerphilly cheese ... For an explanation of often confusing terms such as Great Britain, Britain, United Kingdom, England and Wales and England, see British Isles (terminology). ... Caerphilly Castle Caerphilly (Welsh: Caerffili) is a town in Glamorgan, Wales, located at the bottom of the Rhymney Valley. ... COW is an acronym for a number of things: Can of worms The COW programming language, an esoteric programming language. ... Cheese is a solid food made from the curdled milk of cows, goats, sheep, water buffalo or other mammals. ... Caerphilly Castle Caerphilly (Welsh: Caerffili) is a town in Glamorgan, Wales, located at the bottom of the Rhymney Valley. ... For an explanation of often confusing terms such as Great Britain, Britain, United Kingdom, England and Wales and England, see British Isles (terminology). ...

It is a light-coloured (almost white) crumbly cheese made from cows' milk, and generally has a fat content of around 48%. This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...

It has a mild taste, but perhaps its most noticable feature is its saltiness. It is rumoured that the cheese was developped over time to provide the miners with a convenient way of replelishing the salt lost through hard work underground and so was a staple of the diet of the coal-miners.

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Caerphilly - LoveToKnow 1911 (466 words)
	In 1858 was opened the Rhymney railway from Rhymney to Caerphilly and on to Taff's Well, whence it had running powers over the Taff Vale railway to Cardiff, but in 1871, by means of a tunnel about 2000 yds.
	The ancient commote of Senghenydd (corresponding to the modern hundred of Caerphilly) comprised the mountainous district extending from the ridge of Cefn Onn on the south to Breconshire on the north, being bounded by the rivers Taff and Rumney on the west and east.
	The district was one of the chief centres of the Methodist revival of the 18th century, the first synod of the Calvinistic Methodists being held in 1743 at Watford farm close to the town, from which place George Whitefield was married at Eglwysilan church two years previously.

Caerphilly cheese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (151 words)
	Caerphilly cheese is a hard cheese that originates in the area around the town of Caerphilly in Wales.
	It is a light-coloured (almost white) crumbly cheese made from cows' milk, and generally has a fat content of around 48%.
	It is rumoured that the cheese was developed over time to provide the miners with a convenient way of replenishing the salt lost through hard work underground and so was a staple of the diet of the coal-miners.

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